Arthur Edward Waite

The Sophic Hydrolith: Or, Water Stone of the Wise Arthur Edward Waite

In the First part I will set forth the rudiments of the Art, and the best mode of preparing oneself for its study. In the Second I will shew and describe the quality and properties of the substance required, as also the method of its preparation and manipulation. In the Third something will be said concerning the great utility of the Art, and its unspeakable efficacy and virtue. In the Fourth will follow a Spiritual Allegory, in which this whole Magistery is set forth, being the true form of the Heavenly, Everlasting, and Blessed Corner Stone of the Most High. It will also contain a true, brief, and simple, practical manual of the method of proceeding, for I am no friend of many specious words.